Douglas Federman wrote: > I have experienced the death of 2 new WD Caviar drives after installing and > running Debian Linux. Each drive started with a clicking noise, several > weeks later read errors appeared and now completely dead. WD replaced the > first drive without question. Before I replace the second, could Linux be > causing this? The machine is a Gateway P-II 350. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
These disks wouldn't by any chance be 8.4gig DMA33 disks would they. My windows disk (which I had planned to change to linux) failed the same way - a fairly loud click every now and then. It even got so bad that it caused the computer to reboot a few times. The WD web page indicates that these drives have been having problems, but the problems have been the drive itself - not the OS. For what it's worth, my 1.6 and 3.1 Western Digital drives are working fine with Linux. John Carline -- Powered by the Penguin
